Ryzen 5 6600U vs Ryzen 5 5600H

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Aggregated performance score

Ryzen 5 5600H
2021
6 cores / 12 threads
11.14
+1.6%
Ryzen 5 6600U
2022
6 cores / 12 threads
10.96

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 2% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

General info

Comparing Ryzen 5 5600H and Ryzen 5 6600U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking631640
Place by popularity43not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000)AMD Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
Architecture codenameCezanne-H (Zen 3)Rembrandt-U (Zen 3+)
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years old)January 2022 (2 years old)

Technical specs

Ryzen 5 5600H and Ryzen 5 6600U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores6 (Hexa-Core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads1212
Base clock speed3.3 GHz2.9 GHz
Boost clock speed4.2 GHz4.5 GHz
L1 cache384 KB64K (per core)
L2 cache3 MB512K (per core)
L3 cache16 MB16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography7 nm6 nm
Die sizeno data208 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data95 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 5600H and Ryzen 5 6600U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configurationno data1
SocketFP6FP7
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 5600H and Ryzen 5 6600U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDDR4-3200/LPDDR4-4266 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI++
FMA+no data
AVX++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 5600H and Ryzen 5 6600U are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 5600H and Ryzen 5 6600U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4, DDR4DDR5-4800

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 7AMD Radeon 660M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 5600H and Ryzen 5 6600U.

PCIe versionno data4.0
PCI Express lanesno data20

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 5 5600H 11.14
+1.6%
Ryzen 5 6600U 10.96

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 2% based on our aggregated benchmark results.


Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Ryzen 5 5600H 17066
+1.7%
Ryzen 5 6600U 16786

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 2% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 5 5600H 1609
Ryzen 5 6600U 1637
+1.7%

Ryzen 5 6600U outperforms Ryzen 5 5600H by 2% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 5 5600H 5775
Ryzen 5 6600U 6485
+12.3%

Ryzen 5 6600U outperforms Ryzen 5 5600H by 12% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Ryzen 5 5600H 5832
Ryzen 5 6600U 6242
+7%

Ryzen 5 6600U outperforms Ryzen 5 5600H by 7% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 5 5600H 35018
+9.1%
Ryzen 5 6600U 32097

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 9% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 5 5600H 12008
+21.2%
Ryzen 5 6600U 9908

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 21% in 3DMark06 CPU.

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Ryzen 5 5600H 6.58
Ryzen 5 6600U 4.69
+40.3%

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 40% in wPrime 32.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Ryzen 5 5600H 19
+12%
Ryzen 5 6600U 17

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 12% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 5 5600H 1573
+5.4%
Ryzen 5 6600U 1493

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 5% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 5 5600H 223
Ryzen 5 6600U 233
+4.5%

Ryzen 5 6600U outperforms Ryzen 5 5600H by 4% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Ryzen 5 5600H 2.62
Ryzen 5 6600U 2.73
+4.2%

Ryzen 5 6600U outperforms Ryzen 5 5600H by 4% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 5 5600H 7.4
Ryzen 5 6600U 9.3
+26.5%

Ryzen 5 6600U outperforms Ryzen 5 5600H by 27% in TrueCrypt AES.

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 5 5600H 7497
+8.1%
Ryzen 5 6600U 6937

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 8% in WinRAR 4.0.

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 5 5600H 251
+18.5%
Ryzen 5 6600U 212

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 18% in x264 encoding pass 1.

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 5 5600H 95
+33.2%
Ryzen 5 6600U 71

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Ryzen 5 6600U by 33% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 11.14 10.96
Integrated graphics card 7.43 9.78
Chip lithography 7 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 15 Watt

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